No wonder Dems love Hollywood, & vice versa

The Washington Post ^ | 5/20/08 | Mary Ann Akers

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When actor Michael Douglas sauntered around Capitol Hill Tuesday lobbying for nuclear disarmament, no member of Congress was happier to see him perhaps than Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.), a big fan who actually had license to say, "Long time, no see, Michael."... Her favorite Douglas flick is "The American President," the one in which Douglas plays the dashing widower commander in chief who falls in love with a lobbyist, played by Annette Bening. Tauscher, according to her spokesman, loves the scene at the end of the movie when Douglas, a.k.a. Mr. President, hands Bening a bouquet of flowers. A surprised yet heart-warmed Bening asks how POTUS was able to pull off such a commonplace feat, to which Douglas replies, "Turns out I have a rose garden."

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Under Clinton, movies were hailing a "dashing" commander in chief, as compared to movies assassinating the president under Goerge W. Bush.

This WaPo "story" reminds me of nothing so much as a sub-plot in A Time Like This, my novel about what the last 8 years would have been like under a Democrat President. When Hollywood makes a movie about how the Democrat President would respond to 9/11, the famous actor playing the fictional President steps out onto a White House balcony, shakes his fist in the direction of Flight 903, and vows, "I will never forget." Predictably, Big Media and the rest of official Washington swoons.

Life imitating art?

-Wm Tate, www.atimelikethis.us

[Argus]

"Turns out I have a rose garden."

That rose garden belongs to the American people, a-hole, not you.

[donna]

I don’t get it. Why isn’t Michael Douglas on a plane to Iran?

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I invoke the Douglas rule!

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